{"id":13507,"date":"2025-05-09T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/13507\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:23:14","slug":"seattle-mariners-trade-struggling-pitcher-to-orioles-after-recent-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/13507\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners Trade Struggling Pitcher to Orioles After Recent DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> are in dire need of pitching depth, the same can not be said of the Seattle Mariners<\/a>. The two teams could not be any more different when it comes to the abilities of their pitching staffs, and they came together on a trade late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Mariners sent Luis F. Castillo, whom they recently designated for assignment, to the Orioles for cash considerations. Baltimore optioned the pitcher to Triple-A after the deal was announced.<\/p>\n

Castillo, 30, does not have much experience in the Major Leagues. He has pitched in only five games at that level in his career, three in relief for the Detroit Tigers<\/a> in 2022, and two starts this year for Seattle.<\/p>\n

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In those outings, the pitcher has tallied 10.2 innings while pitching to a 5.06 ERA with nine strikeouts. He served as a depth piece for the Mariners while they have been dealing with injuries to other starters like Logan Gilbert and George Kirby.<\/p>\n

His outings with Seattle were not great this year, as most of the earned runs he has allowed in his MLB career came from those two starts. He carries a 7.71 ERA across seven innings to Baltimore with five strikeouts and a 2.71 WHIP.<\/p>\n

It is an interesting trade, as now the Mariners may have more cash available to make some moves at the 2025 MLB trade deadline. For the Orioles, they now have more pitching depth.<\/p>\n

It was highly unlikely that Seattle would need Castillo to fill in again this season, and this move gives him the opportunity to pitch more regularly and have a better chance of sticking in the Majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Baltimore Orioles are in dire need of pitching depth, the same can not be said of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[47,5,53,465,7130,620,4,3449,7408,619,65,3235,1362],"class_list":{"0":"post-13507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-george-kirby","12":"tag-luis-f-castillo","13":"tag-mariners","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-trade-deadline","16":"tag-rhp-luis-f-castillo","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-mariners","19":"tag-seattlemariners","20":"tag-the-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114478331031760864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}